Improvement in stoves



M. POND. 1 Cooking Range.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES POND, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IM PROVEM ENT IN STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,120, dated January 7, 1862.

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, MOSES POND, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachu sett-s, have invented certain Improvements in Cooking Ranges and Stoves, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a range with my improvements attached; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section through the middle of one of the ovens; Fig. 3, a vertical section upon the line X X of Fig. 2.

My invention consists in the employment of two separate and independent fines-one to each ovenand each provided with suitable dampers, so that all the heat may be concentrated around a single oven and one oven be used independently of the other. The iues of each oven beingindependent of those of the other oven enables me while one oven is being used for baking to use the flues of the other oven as a passage from the bonnet to the chimney without interfering with the draft around the oven which is in use.

That others skilled in the art may under stand and use my invention, Iwill proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried out the same.

In the said drawings, A represents the brick-Work in which the range is set; B, the

4fire-space; O, the top, containing the potholes a; D, a movable bonnet or cover, which is placed over the articles cooking on the potholes ct to conduct the steam and effluvia which may arise into the chimney; E and F, two independent ovens, which are heated by separate surrounding flues, as follows:

From the fire-space B the tiame and hot gases pass beneath the top O into the Hue G, which extends across the back of the range. From the flue G openings b, commanded by dampers c, communicate one with the iues d e f of the oven E and the other with the iues g lt 'L' of the oven F. A partition k, extending from the bottom plate Z to the top plate m, enti rely separates the air-space around one oven from that around the other. Openings H,

commanded b v slides o in the top plate m, establish a communication from the flues f and t' with the passage p to the chimney.

The adjustment of the slides o serves to regulate the draft of the range to suit the capacity of the chimney in which it is set. The slides are intended to be adjusted at the time the range is set; but if afterward it is found that the range has not a proper draft, either too much or too little, access may be had to the slides 0 by removing the ovens E F, when the slides can be reached. At other times they are out of reach of the person Who attends the fire, and who cannot open them or` produce a draft which would waste the fuel or destroy the fire-grate.

An opening r in the front part of the bottom plate l enters the iue d beneath the oven E, and another similar opening s enters the iiue g beneath the oven F. These openings are commanded by slides t,which are reached from the front of the range. The bonnet D has a spout u, which when the bonnet is in place extends beneath the opening r or s and places the bonnet in communication with one or the other of the flues beneath the ovens, from whence the smell of the cooking is earried to the chimney. The bonnet, being movable, may be placed opposite to either oven, and the tlues of one oven being entirely i`ndependent of those of the other oven one oven may be employed for baking, (the slide c being open and the slide t being ciosed,) while the tlues of the other oven when it is not in use may be employed to make a communication from the bonnet D to the chimney. In this case, however, the slide t of this side would be opened and the slide c be closed. The slides c are operated by rods 5, (shown in red, Fig. 2,) which extend to the front of the range.

W'hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The two ovens E and F, each having separate and independent flues from the same nre-place, in combination with the openings r and s and their slides t, operating as described, and for the purpose specified.

MOSES POND.

W'itnesses:

THos. R. RoAcH, EDMUND MASSON. 

